Posted on 03/23/2017 5:18:03 AM PDT by Kaslin
Liberals do this a lot more - out of the mouths of babes, and all that rot. I don’t accept this from either side. In most cases they are just parroting what they heard from their parents or teachers.
I get called a curmudgeon a lot. I were it proudly, along with deplorable, and slimy bottom feeder, which I was called when I questioned a municipal action which had every appearance of a payoff in exchange for a favor for a city councilman.
This is exactly why young people are easily seduced by the left; the left actively courts them, likes them,does everything they can to keep them.
we just yell at them, you kids with your greasy hair keep off my lawn..!
conservative people are old and crabby and don’t welcome stupid young people:
it’s a strategy for short sighted losers who’ve given up on winning.
Tomi does have potential. She will grow in knowledge, understanding and wisdom.
bkmrk for later
I think the author may be overly critical. It’s safe — even wise — to be a little skeptical of the tyro conservative, but young people with unabashed conservative values are refreshing. And if we’re going to survive as an ideology, conservatism can’t rest solely in the hands of grizzled old fogeys like us.
Wow - IMHO this really hits the nail on the head. Nothing drives me crazier than this “I think I’ll show how much of an independent thinker I am by saying something that is fundamentally inconsistent with what I said yesterday”. Although, to be fair, it is not solely a young-person’s problem (e.g., John McSongbird).
And the author is right - I think that the concept of “my truth” is the antithesis of Biblical/Western thought and has done an incredible amount of damage.
The old adage comes to mind (paraphrasing):
“It’s better to be silent and thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt.”
You are precisely correct.
There are hundreds of quality commentators on places like You Tube that have woken up to find themselves on the political right and are really fighting the political war with the best of them putting out hours of talk and interactive discussion with young people trying to figure it all out themselves.
But too many older people that came up with conservative AM talk radio would never want anything to do with them because they aren’t the “traditional” 1983 image of the young conservative. It is a blown opportunity that will leave a lot of them either giving the right the middle finger or just heading back to the left, where it is easy to blend in.
I guess we have run out of things to talk about.
“...they aren’t the “traditional” 1983 image of the young conservative”
Aww, come on it’s not that bad.
I start with the question “do our freedom, rights, and liberties come from God or from government”. Many young will say goverment and cite law. I then start with the DoI and point out the addition of the Bill of Rights was a pre-requisite for States before they would ratify the Constitution and thereby create the goverment. Together they show that Americans freedoms are derived from God (DoI) and are specifically enumerated and stipulated to be beyond the purview of government.
It’s a very inflammatory argument to Leftists. Be prepared for violent objection.
The natural disposition is always to believe. It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough. The wisest and most cautious of us all frequently gives credit to stories which he himself is afterwards both ashamed and astonished that he could possibly think of believing. - Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)
Yes-—Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)——one of the first books to be stripped from the canon of Great Books—for our so-called “education” system of America. Can’t have truth and real wisdom instilled in our children. Can’t have minds like the Founders who all had read Adam Smith and grew up on John Locke and the Bible.
Can’t have the ideas which created the most free and just and rational culture (men) of all time-—because free will and individualism (Christian understanding of uniqueness and dignity in every human being) has to be erased for the “collective” mindset of Marx, where idea of mother and father have to be eliminated along with the concepts of the Founders and great men like Adam Smith and John Locke and St. Thomas Aquinas.
Why do you think only White heterosexual Christian males are being vilified and demeaned in our culture? To destroy the concepts that created freedom and individualism and free will in the World. They want to return us all into non-thinking “tribal” mindsets (collective “group” thinkers) so agency is destroyed in our children. That is what Common Core (NCLB/Goals 2000) does-—it destroys the time of great learning of children-—puts them into prisons of programming, where they are hyper-sexualized and agency is destroyed, so virtue is destroyed and they will be ignorant and immoral (lazy/addicted) for life-—just drones for the State.
All the great ideas/thinking (curricula) was destroyed by the communist, humanist, sodomite, John Dewey, who wanted to program children instead of “educate” them——just use conditioning-—use biased “texts” and remove original source documents, so ideas could be warped, and Words (meanings) “changed” so Slavery could be Freedom and Boys could be Girls so children will be made irrational and dumb.
Today’s curricula embeds hate for white Christian males, Western Civ and glorifies evil, vice, and tribal cultures so that virtue is destroyed in our children with dying Traditions and no Wisdom passed on to the next generation.
Schlichter is the best follow on Twitter, IMHO.
Very few people can be like James Madison or Nietzsche in their 20s. That genius at really young ages takes decades of studying and reading the great books, and I doubt very much that todays young—most never even come close to a mind like Madison or Nietzsche.
It isn’t really possible which kids sitting in front of screens, the TV type of “programming” which embed emotions (irrationality) only, never wisdom— since *reading* and real life experiences (with other humans/not screens and superficial Facebook/twitter which distracts and keeps from wisdom and real “learning”) are necessary for wisdom of the ages which are only gained by reading the Great Books which includes the Bible and interacting with real people in real time (so understanding of human beings and agency (control of own emotions/virtue) will occur. I doubt that she has read the Bible all the way through (The Book of Wisdom)....and, I agree, “”her” truth” is the dumbest, most irrational (and most evil) thing ever stated.
I thought Dominic was absolutely bat-crap crazy.
In retrospect, of course, not only was he absolutely spot-on, but my friend Dominic (God rest him) predicted the coming of the Clinton era and the restrictions on the right to keep and bear arms it brought.
She'll learn. Give her a couple decades, and she'll either be a Progressive, or a rock-ribbed pro-life conservative.
My only fear is that she's already killed her child, which tends to bias a woman toward a defense of abortion, our of guilt and shame.
Speaking of books of wisdom— one of the best things one of my Sunday school teachers in high school ever did for me was teach me three solid years of Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and James — all wisdom books. That man saved me many a trial by implanting that wisdom in me while I was young.
We should be mentoring these promising young people, not pulling rank on them. Conservatism is a large club that doesn’t require seniority to get in. The only credentials necessary are common sense and a basic unity of ideals. And if some tweaking of opinions is required, that’s where the mentorship comes in.
If we isolate these young people, we’ll do so at our peril.
“...but young people with unabashed conservative values are refreshing....”
And need to be encouraged, taught, mentored, and turned loose on the world.
Teach. Coach. Get involved.
That’s how you take back your culture.
Great and overdue rant!
Unfortunately it should also include all the other deluded children way over 35...
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